Inspirational Quotes

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

~Dr. Seuss

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much
and go where your heart takes you"

 -Anonymous

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

 

May your spirit sour throughtout the vast cathedral of your being
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity
May your heart sind sweet Lullibies of timelessness
  -Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. 
~Stephen Leacock

 

If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.

~Buddha

“There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.” 

— Martha Graham

 

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” 

— Mary Lou Cook

 

“So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”  

— Brenda Ueland 

 

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.” 

— Albert Camus 

 

“You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”

— Sean Connery 

 

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” 

— Huxley, Thomas

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
— Goethe

 

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)

 

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

 

I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. the second is sheer perseverance.

-Mary-Claire King 

If you are going to be original, you are going to be wrong a lot.

-Anonymous 

 

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

-Rita Mae Brown (Starting From Scratch) 

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. -    Lao-tzu 

The body is a sacred garment. -Martha Graham

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion.  Then I go out and paint the stars. 

~Vincent Van Gogh

 

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. 

~Tuli Kupferberg